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Chicago Moves Closer To Installing LED Street Lamps

(CBS) — Chicago is another step closer to losing the orange glow from its streetlights.

WBBM’s Steve Miller reports.

The public comment period officially ended Monday for the city’s plan to start replacing 270,000 outdated streetlights with LED lights.

As the new, cheaper, longer-lasting LED lights replace the old, high-pressure sodium lights, the city will be in a whiter shade of light.

“Please, Mayor. Please. Keep our amber-colored lights.”

So says Audrey Fischer of the Chicago Astronomical Society. She says the use of blue-rich white LEDs will lead to what’s called “light trespass” and disrupt circadian rhythms and mess with peoples’ melatonin production.